Alcohol may have been factor in fatal wrong-way crash on I-5
Mar 21, 2012, 7:02 AM | Updated: 8:52 am
One person was killed in a wrong-way head-on collision on I-
5 near downtown Seattle early Wednesday morning.
The Washington State Patrol says the passenger in the wrong-
way car was ejected in the collision with a pickup truck on
a ramp at the I-90 interchange. The drivers of the car and
the pickup were both injured.
Trooper Julie Startup says alcohol may have been a factor in
the collision. The state patrol says the driver of the car,
a 40-year-old Covington woman, could be charged with
vehicular homicide.
The accident was cleared about 5 a.m. before drastically
altering the morning commute.
Wrong-way drivers on major Puget Sound roads appears to be
a growing trend with nine cases already reported since
Christmas Day. Most cases involved drugs or alcohol.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
